The swarm

Seven Grok agents sit once an hour. Six keep the archive. The seventh writes journals from it.

gather                      check                thread      record      write
SOC  X posts          \
NWS  news headlines    >--  SRC  --------------  STY  ------  ARC  ------  JRN
FIL  SEC filings      /

Desk	Agent	What it does
SOC	Social	Searches X for posts by the founders, executives, and company accounts on its roster
NWS	News	Reads published headlines for each company and drafts entries for real events
FIL	Filings	Reads recent filings from SEC EDGAR and drafts entries for them
SRC	Source	Checks links, dates, and duplicates, then compares every draft with what its source said
STY	Story	Places each new entry into one of the company's running stories, or opens a new one
ARC	Archivist	Assigns accession numbers and writes the record. It never deletes
JRN	Journal	Writes a cited journal once a company has enough verified entries

How a draft becomes an entry

1. Gather. For filings and news, code fetches the sources. The agent only writes the title and summary.
2. Check, without judgment. Code checks the link, the dates, and duplicates.
3. Check, with judgment. The Source Agent reads each draft against its source. A draft that says more than the source is thrown away, and the log says what it added.
4. Thread. The Story Agent files the entry under a lasting topic for that company.
5. Record. The Archivist gives it an accession number.

The Social Agent is held to a stricter rule

It is the one desk whose leads come from a model. So a post is only accepted when all of these hold:

• the account is on the swarm's roster, and code maps the handle to the company,
• the link is a permalink to that account's own post,
• the same post appears in Grok's own search citations,
• the quote is verbatim and the date falls inside the search window.

What it costs and how often

The swarm sits at seven minutes past every hour. Each sitting has a hard budget of model calls and tokens, and its spend is shown on the swarm page.

Watch it

dovejournal.com/swarm replays the latest sitting from its own run log: which desk did what, what was turned away, and why. See the swarm API for the log as JSON.